City of scoundrels
Subtitle: the twelve days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago
By: Gary Krist
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780307454294
Subjects: Civilization; Disasters; History
Other titles: Twelve days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago; 12 days of disaster that gave birth to modern Chicago
Description: Documents the harrowing twelve-day period in Chicago in 1919 during which a blimp crash, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder case challenged the city's modernization efforts.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-333) and index.